The Coping Mechanism of Mediocre Talents is a colossal, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by App A Thetik with a fair hand, and renowned for its daily referendums, national health service, and hatred of cheese. The compassionate, democratic population of 8.615 billion Mediocrites are free to do what they want with their own bodies, and vote for whomever they like in elections; if they go into business, however, they are regulated to within an inch of their lives.

The large, liberal, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Education, Administration, and Healthcare. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Languorous Daydream. The average income tax rate is 95.0%.

The frighteningly efficient Mediocre Talentsian economy, worth a remarkable 1,459 trillion Toothpicks a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Information Technology industry, with significant contributions from Tourism and Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 169,399 Toothpicks, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Sales of disinfectant wipes have skyrocketed, agreeing to appear on TV is often the best way to access social care, money that should have gone to charities is instead spent on monitoring them, and the fire protection service is wholly government-funded. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Mediocre Talents's national animal is the Talentless Goose, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies, and its national religion is Existential Crisis.

Mediocre Talents is ranked 290,309^th in the world and 3,722^nd in the West Pacific for Largest Gambling Industry, scoring -36.64 on the Kelly Criterion Productivity Index.